Europe could build nuclear fusion reactor without US help

A groundbreaking international research project is in jeopardy after the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin threatened that Europe could complete the project without US help.

Mr Raffarin said yesterday (12 January) that Europe could go it alone and build the World’s first nuclear fusion power station, despite Europe being engaged in the nineteen-year-old project.

"We have to have ITER [the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor], even if we do it ourselves" Mr Ra...